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i think it was fairly common for wealthy men to leave during the intermission, go to the greenroom and try to "hire" an actress as a prostitute. i dont know if this was only for men visiting without their wives or what, but i wouldnt put it past them to do it with the whole family in attendance.

i think this pic is referring to that, but flipping the genders. thus the funny.

in times of want, yes. but in times of plenty, a pre-marinaded mouse surely satisfies.

british upper class boy schools definitely ran on systematic abuse of the young by the older students and the teachers, and i'm sure this prepared them for decisions like firing cannons at civilians and overseeing famines

but this is rest of europe erasure for sure. do you think eg german parents and child rearing methods/institutions were better?

i think it's a fairly recent (re?)discovery that beating kids is bad.

yes, but the intergenerational pathology reaches back way further than the parents of boomers. i dont know about the rest of the world, but the west has been beating and traumatizing kids practically since forever.

so you cant blame this on just the ww2 ptsd.

the fourth reich tried to got some comprador iranians to do an actual insurgency and was trying to get the kurds to do one too. but sure, it's iran.

us? you must be this old:

this man really doesnt know how to talk to the american people. he should've said iran could make a nuclear burger!

baldur's gate when the hero comes into your house, checks if you have a quest to give, ransacks it, kills you when you call for the guards and then leaves before the guards can spawn in, thus maintaining a pristine reputation as a shining hero

the hero then proceeds to systematically burgle EVERY house in beregost methodically. while still maintaining a pristine reputation.

they delivered! they promised that by the end of this decade, they'd put a bean into a man, and by god they've done it!

in universe, unknown (deliberately so). his wife has nature goddess vibes, except that nothing else in LOTR really fits in with that.

in the real world, he's a character tolkien invented long before he wrote LOTR (he appears in some poems, alongside farmer maggot). when tolkien was writing LOTR, he didnt initially have a very good idea what the plot would end up being (all he knew is, he was writing the hobbit 2), so he included a tom bombadil adventure just so the hobbits would have something to do.

and then he just never took the episode out during the subsequent 18283281 waves of revisions he did to LOTR during the writing process.

now look what you've gone and done, you've made me invent the concept of pro-iran zionism! my poor nerves!